skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I know of today's developer culture the solution will be for one company, probably Microsoft given their ownership of GitHub, to step in and become undisputed king and single point of failure for all open source development. Developers will say this is great and will happily invite this, with security people repeating mantras about how securing things is "hard" and "Microsoft has more security personnel than we do." Then MS will own the whole ecosystem. Anyone objecting will be called old or a paranoid nut. "This is how we do things now."
Germany isn't banning criticisms against Israel. They're banning antisemitic symbolism (whatever that means) that gets used in the protests. They have been like that for a long time with Nazi symbolism that isn't explicitly antisemitic.
Written language is like the outer skin layer, a product of a living organism consisting of dead cells.
Being a good translator is to have a good sense of what those organisms are.
Using an accent without also speaking the right language seems needless.

I do like that Hunt for Red October has the Russians all speak Russian until one of them says a crucial word that's the same in English, and from there it's all English. "Armageddon". This submarine is capable of ICBM launch, starting World War III, and in the resulting ashes English or Russian would not matter.
except now everyone who isn't on Ozempic, is obese.
Couldn't they just define a standard resume file format, and let all of the Workday implementations support importing it?
This is almost certainly intentional, and is very similar to the way web browsers mitigate the Spectre vulnerability[1]. Your processor (almost certainly) does some branch prediction to improve efficiency. If an application developer reliably knows the exact time, they can craft an application which jumps to another application's execution path, granting them complete access to its internal workings.

To mitigate this threat, javascript engine developers simply added a random fuzzy delay to all of the precision timing techniques. Swift's large volume of calls to unrequired methods is, almost certainly, Apple's implementation of this mitigation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...
Is there somewhere a good feature comparison table between Zed, Helix, VIM, NeoVIM, EMACS, etc.? Or the same but for goals/scope?
Is the scientific method, or more generally modern science and how it is distributed to those outside the field, so poorly designed that not disclosing ties invalidates what was communicated? If so, sounds like we shouldn't be relying on such a method as a source of truth for policy making, or at least treating it with much more skepticism. Are we perhaps using science to inform policy makers before there are multiple independent replications which would make an instance of ethical disregard less likely to influence the outcome?

Hiding things, even by omission, is not acceptable. But think of it like a CI/CD system where a junior dev takes down prod. No matter what mistake they made, no matter why they made the mistake, the system shouldn't be so weak that their mistake caused any significant issues. (Please ignore for a moment the junior dev isn't acting with a level of ethnical disregard such as seen by not disclosing ties; the comparison isn't perfect.)
Contriving and placing obstacles between people and gainful employment distorts unemployment statistics.

A nonzero number of people will refuse to engage with these stupid systems as a matter of principle, even to their own detriment. Workday enables marginalizing potential "problem" (excessively integritudinous) employees without ever crafting explicit policies to do so.
Idea: feed the meeting audio using this to a black mass. A singularity program that converts words into action.
read between the lines
This is, by definition ("the protesters" used to generalise to all protesters), a gross generalisation. Based on what evidence? All the protests I have been to people have taken great pains to make that distinction.

Comments like the above merely reinforce what I'm saying: the basis of criticism is never engaged with in terms of its own merits or content but is dismissed using ad hominem.
Yeah, this is horrifying from a performance design perspective. But in this case you'd still expect that the "current time" retrieval[1] to be small relative to all the other async overhead (context switching for every byte!), and apparently it isn't?

[1] On x86 linux, it's just a quick call into the vdso that reads the TSC and some calibration data, dozen cycles or so.
And the National Museum of Computing is there as well.

https://www.tnmoc.org/
If you just have water at the bottom of the hill you'll need to build a giant tank on the top of the hill. The best spots for pumped hydro have a natural depression elevated above a water source, so you can use that instead.

(I agree that this is different from traditional hydro locations, and so there are many good spots still available)
In real time?

Mine only gives me a month-to-date, end of month for billing, and month-over-month for the last two years (plus the outside temperature for comparison).
Well, we meaning the most common kind of users, techies or newbies or luser all together: most part of humans today use a desktop like a browser bootloader, to a point someone have invented "the Chromebook" because of that, bringing also a limited kind of tab-based UI to the masses.

Allow me a question: when you read your emails how many windows you use for that? Personally I use one (notmuch-emacs) or two (notmuch+a note), when you buy some stock do you use some full screen software (no matter if local or web) to see market data or you have many other windows shown at the same time? These are just two example of common activities. Of course if you are a frontend programmer you probably have much more stuff shown all your work time, but I bet none of them specially overlapping. That's is the "we" I, a bit arrogantly, use above...

> I have colleagues who work in Mac full screen mode and I get motion sick watching them move between (and forget the location of) different apps and windows.

I use Emacs/EXWM and well, yes, often I forgot some buffers/X11 apps open, but who care? The point is that anything is at my fingertips. I can easily create windows layout, or save-and-restore them, I can easy flip windows (mode-line-other-buffer bound to a keystroke) is MUCH more efficient than moving the mouse around.
It depends on your risk tolerance!

We may want to bet more for more likely outcomes, even if the expected return is lower, if we value predictability and the cost of a bad portfolio outcome is high.
Hey this is really neat thanks for sharing definitely putting this on my list of things to put together.

Any chance the name has a connection to Twister?
Sure, they managed to keep cars off the path, but killed/maimed cyclists in the process. IE, they didn't think the design all the way through, they only thought about the cars, not other users of the system.
It is noteworthy that Wikipedia gives as cost for the Artemis program a total sum of US$93+ billion (2012–2025).

It is a bit difficult to compare, because NASA shuffles around cost, and the plan is that Artemis will do way more (moon base) than Apollo. But Apollo seems to have been not only a technological marvel, but exceptionally well managed?

Regarding Manhattan project it has this mythical quality (the name alone is cool), but the Russians had the a-bomb only 4 years later and smaller countries (South Africa) are able to achieve it too.
Thank you for the link <3
For those not familiar, Dick was the older brother of Burt Rutan, another aviation legend. Immeasurable contributions to civil aviation from that family.
And that is the ‘performative’ part.

It’s similar to making everyone sort their recycling, and then just throwing it all in the same landfill when it actually gets to the dump.

Why not actually recycle?

And/or if we’re not going to actually recycle, why make everyone go through such a complicated song and dance and spend so much time on something that ends up not mattering?

Wait, this is a lot more applicable of an analogy than I was expecting.
I would love to live in the universe where popularity was a good indicator of quality.
OSX clock_gettime() [0] offers CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, but not CLOCK_UPTIME, only CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW.

Maybe someone knows why? On FreeBSD it is available [2].

[0]: https://www.manpagez.com/man/3/clock_gettime_nsec_np/
[2]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=clock_gettime
I was able to reproduce the segfault in a project with millions of files. It spat out a JSON blob saying something about

Could not start watcher on parent directory: Error { kind: MaxFilesWatch, paths: <my path>

It works well for smaller projects though.
One related concept is “partially homomorphic encryption” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption#Partial...). These are encryption schemes that are homomorphic under one operation such as addition or multiplication.

For example, you could use an additively homomorphic scheme to compute a sum of encrypted values. This could then be converted into an average assuming you knew the number of values.
> But you'd set up a user ID to apply to the previous job, so this should be — huh? It wants an entirely new ID. New company, new profile, new form. Oof. Surely it saved your application entries from the other job, right? Nope.

Surely this should not be desired behavior? I'd be really scared if I apply to a different company and they already have my resume from my previous job.
How many commits has each fork that are not in the other?
The question is, when will humanity become wise enough to catch up with the technology? Probably never.
Given that a significant number of systems don't meet the "minimum requirements" for Windows 11, it's not really a surprise that adoption has been slow. It'll be interesting to see how many of those just stay on unsupported Windows 10, and if Microsoft ends up continuing support and relaxing the "requirements" to upgrade them to Windows 11.

But even where the upgrade is supported, there doesn't really seem to be much motivation to move to Windows 11 for most people. There's a whole load of UI changes (many of which don't feel like improvements), but not really much in the way of big new features to draw people in.
People already do this, at least if they're smart.
My personal rule is to rewrite specific solutions many times (all similar to each other) until I have "learned enough" to start thinking about an appropriate generalization (versus generalizing from the beginning).
This is not inconsistent with How to Measure Anything IMO (I like that book as well). The biggest issue to me is that he does not define actual follow ups on ROI -- it is all estimated in this framework. So it is all good to define how to prioritize, it is not helpful though retrospectively to see if people are making good estimates.

My work very rarely is a nicely isolated new thing -- I am building something on-top of an already existing product. In these scenarios ROI is more difficult -- you need some sort of counterfactual profit absent the upgrade. Most people just take total profit for some line, which is very misleading in the case of incremental improvements.
Weaver: An ergonomic CLI parsing library for Roc lang
Is implementing the same peripheral register API really IP theft?
The general dynamic remains: protests against specific actions of Israel are dismissed as anti-semitic by definition.
Banning Nazi symbolism is a good thing. Trying to equate neo-Nazis to anti-war protesters is disingenuous.
Open-source notification infrastructure for developers
If this was intentional, shouldn't it also affect `mach_absolute_time` which is used by the standard libraries of most languages and accessible to Swift?

Also note you can get precise JavaScript measurements (and threading, eg. using pthreads and Emscripten) by adding some headers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/cros...
Should be easy enough to let the applicant choose what happens. Why must it be one way or another all the time?
> Enterprise software is a pig dressed up with lipstick from an army of sales and marketing drones.

To the point that I now consider "enterprise" a euphemism for "substandard".

Takes a little of the shine off Star Trek.
I dont see what I'm missing. I'm addressing why ChatGPT generated a response given a prompt. If another LLM had been used, something far simpler, the explanation would be different.

If a highly simplified LLM will generate text against discrete quantitative constraints, under a variety of scenarios, then I've underestimated how highly structured the relevant training data must be.

An LLM trained on a physics textbook isnt going to be conversational; one trained on shakespear will generate text from elizabethan english..

ie., in every case, the explanation of why any given response was generated is given by explaining the distribution of its dataset. So if a shakespear LLM generates, "to be or otherwise to be not is alike everything ere annon" we will be mostly explaining how/why those words were used by shakespear.

and if an LLM is small, and is actually discretely sensitive to quantities across a large vareity of domains.. my guess is that its training data has been specially prepared. This is jsut a guess about hte nature of human commnuication though, it has nothing to do with LLMs. I just guess that we don't distribute "quantity tokens" in such a highly patterned way that a simple LLM model would work to find it
1974 Celica is 'peak car' for mine.
You'd think so, but reality shows it's a dangerous design for whatever reason. We need to engineer roads and paths for actual humans, who are flawed.
Shall we talk about what % of the population is imprisoned in all the countries you mentioned?
> Pay attention to how interactions make you feel. Interactions that create self-doubt, feelings of inadequacy, of not doing enough for the project, etc. might be part of a social engineering attack.

Thus all ungrateful tickets whining about the project maintainers' lack of activity or brow beating then into action must be seen as a threat. How interesting.
Nothing prevents applications from just calling the underlying methods mentioned in the article, so that can’t be it. The author even benchmarked these!
> I'm guessing streets like the one you share are narrow enough that cars don't usually try going 50mph?

No, generally it works reasonably well. Everyone understands it's a small narrow street and that you need to share. Well, most people anyway. But small footpaths are definitely a downside, and unfortunately also without an easy fix in many cases.
> Is the scientific method, or more generally modern science and how it is distributed to those outside the field, so poorly designed that not disclosing ties invalidates what was communicated?

Basically, yeah. There's the famous replication crisis, and of course p-hacking. There's also the forking garden problem, e.g. in: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_...

Put it like this: If you're motivated to reach a certain conclusion in the soft sciences, odds are that you're going to find it. (But not that other researchers who come after you will find the same thing.)
Idea: feed this to a recurrent neural network
Author here.

Worth pointing out that the discussion from Sept 19 2013 is actually about a blog post, which predates the book. It's because of the amount of feedback it got on HN that I wondered whether this topic could be turned into a book.

Coincidentally, tomorrow I'll be speaking at the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup [0]. About 11 years ago, I spoke there for the first time. That talk is the reason the aforementioned blog post (and by extension the book) exists.

In short, I owe a lot to that meetup and the HN community. Thanks!

[0] https://nyhackr.org/
I was curious how linux's clock_gettime compared. I wrote a simple program that tried all the clock types documented in my manpage: https://gist.github.com/jepler/e37be8fc27d6fb77eb6e9746014db...

My two handy systems were an i5-1235U running 6.1.0-20-amd64 and a Ryzen 7 3700X also running 6.1.0-20-amd64. The fastest method was 3.7ns/s call on the i5 and 4ns/call on the Ryzen (REALTIME_COARSE and MONOTONIC_COARSE were about the same). If a "non-coarse" timestamp is required, the time increases to about 20ns/call on ryzen, 12ns on i5. (realtime, tai, monotonic, boottime).

On the i5, if I force the benchmark to run on an efficiency core with taskset, times increase to 6.4ns and 19ns.
But what’s so bad about nicotine? Is it any worse than caffeine?

I’m genuinely curious, because isn’t tar and carbon monoxide the dangerous byproduct of smoking, not the nicotine?
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Dead Internet Theory in a nutshell
What is exactly wrong with shutting down someone who not just lies (nothing unique there lol) but systematically supports information war against your country?
This should be the mindset for any commit. I mean, they could add something benign unknowingly. Something could hack their account, or abuse a flaw in your commit-system to appear as someone else. They could have a melt-down, or strange ideas and adding something for nonsical reasons. Shit can happen all the time from all directions for any reason.
Long time ago. Since the discovery of electricity, basically.
> Point is that the simplest way to excel in next token prediction in the way human consider correct - which is rated by how people feel the predictor mimics a human understanding - is to actually have a world model and other components of human understanding.

This is a speculative theory for why a next token predictor might sound like it knows what it's talking about. Not something we actually know.
Why should something that goes through a town be a highway? Highways should be between and around towns. A town itself is for living in, and anyone coming into town should do so in a way that respects that (i.e. not at high speed). That also makes it far more attractive to actually stop and patronise local businesses.
Backend Engineer tries to build a hardware counter for its side project.
In this case it's akin to the bullied child crying 'I'll kill you', from his puddle of blood on the ground. Israel's own conduct in Gaza and the West Bank is the primary threat to the existence of the state. Not two million impoverished people who've been crushed under an imperial boot since the theft of their land almost eighty years ago. Israel is a wealthy, post industrial US backed, nuclear power. Hamas are a convenient boogyman allowing them to further consolidate their control over land that international law recognises as occupied [1].

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
I’ll add one more, which I alluded to in my first comment.

Netanyahu has been supporting and funding Hamas for years, specifically and explicitly to prevent recognition of a Palestinian state. Direct quote: “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.”

https://archive.md/2024.04.07-081801/https://www.haaretz.com...

But yeah, I’m sure all those peace offers were totally legitimate and it’s Palestine’s fault for never being satisfied.
Definitely mortality.

For those unfamiliar with how org structures work in academia/tenure... (at least, assume this is still true)

Once attaining tenure, your promotion track focuses on faculty leadership positions.

These positions are selected by a combination of administration & faculty. It varies institute to institute, but strong candidates usually have backing from both.

These positions are almost always held by tenured faculty, as non-tenure is looked down upon for historical/political reasons.

Note: You only need to please 2 types of stakeholders: administration & faculty.

Ergo, the path to promotion becomes:

- Make tenure
- Politick with faculty colleagues
- Politick with administration
- Wait for someone to die

This leads to a weird bent where your bosses (faculty) are selected for their ability to navigate political winds and say the thing that most people agree with, moreso than being disagreeably brilliant.
I do maintain the safec lib actually, but this I just the bounds-checking Annex K, not a proper string library with u8 and identifier support.
Yes! Yes it did! Israel is risking its soldiers’ lives and gives up home land security to reduce harm for civilians.
Encore for TypeScript
How I think about debt
Wow, I did not know until now that 90% (!!!) of Palestinians "believe that Hamas did not commit any atrocities against Israel civilians during its October the 7th offensive," and "only one in five Palestinians has seen videos showing atrocities committed by Hamas." Are they really so misinformed?

If that's true, it makes sense to ask whether Al Jazeera has been purposely feeding misinformation to the Palestinian population during the war. And it makes sense to ask if that is in any way related by Al Jazeera's funding by Qatar, where the leaders of Hamas live: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/qatar-hamas-israel-1.699941...

Thank you for sharing this here.
Lots of narrative here buddy
Tomato metabolites evolved through gene duplication and regulatory divergence
Nicotine addiction is chronic and very hard to break. You can reset caffeine tolerance and dependence in 10 days.
Yes, nicotine is much worse than caffeine for your heart.
In 2019, a list of Juul's sockpuppets was released. It was part of a large document release, tied to a NC AG lawsuit & settlement.

It includes David Abrams and Ray Niaura, along with a string of professors and health professionals. Among Juul's supporters are a well-placed UK health official.

ref:https://tobaccowatch.seatca.org/index.php/2024/04/11/industr...
Yes. We feel this pain all the time in the realm of security. Main problem is the incentives are backwards. You would not pay your municipality to dump garbage on your lot, you pay them to take it away. And yet IT shops go for complex gadgets that end up being as vulnerable as the thing they are intended to protect (this has been the case forever, but if you need a recent example, Evil XDR was presented in Black Hat Asia'24).
It's not alien origin, it came from earth. Maybe it's post-terrestrial ?
The Three-Legged Stool of Innovation Is Sort of a Lie
> filling the screen with scary gibberish?”
What scary gibberish was that again? It's been too long ago for me :')
Another way he could do his part is to kill someone in a judicially-approved way, such as during a war.
Yes, our human sensor fusion is remarkable. The input signal of say our eyes is warped, upside down and low resolution apart from a tiny patch that races across the field of vision to capture high resolution samples (saccades). Yet, to us, it feels seamless and encompassing.
How come Palintir didnt flag Epstein?
This sounds like an escalation I've heard before:

There was an old lady who swallowed a cow;
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the roly-poly;
I don't know why she swallowed a roly-poly – perhaps she'll die!
i am curious ig there is a valid threat in israelis reading al jazeera. or if they have any proof of any falsehoods being published there and why it would need to be shut down?. any good neutral resource around this for a non-israeli/non-palestinian person to make sense of this? from the surface this looks so grim, but i do not want to jump to conclusions... its so hard to make sense of this more and more.. and it becomes easier to beleive the wrong things.
In which case you have a trivial point rather than a backwards argument: "the output seems like it knows what's it talking about, and the easiest way to explain that is if it really knows what it's talking about."